# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cornelia-dorabuji
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:22:32.253Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/cornelia-dorabuji"
name: "Cornelia Dorabuji"
slug: "cornelia-dorabuji"
description: "Cornelia Sorabji was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system. Hoping to remedy this, Sorabji presented herself for the LLB examination of Bombay University in 1897 and the pleader's examination of Allahabad High Court in 1899. She became the first female advocate in India but would not be recognised as a barrister until the law which barred women from practising was changed in 1923."
tagline: "Indian barrister, writer, and social reformer; first female graduate from Bombay University, first woman to study law at Oxford University; first Indian national to study at a British university"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cornelia_Sorabji_at_the_1924_Braemar_Gathering.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1866-11-15"
deathDate: "1954-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.891117478510028
  historical:           19.853532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump